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If English is your Second Language, What Language do you blog in?

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Here is the case for both sides, bulleted: Why blog in English: You can also blog in your own language, but when you blog in English, you???re You are making Cambodia more visible on Google and you are portraying Cambodia from a local???s You are writing to a targeted audience and you should speak the language of that audience.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

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Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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Vlogging to Cambodia: Eath Chhnon

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She grew up in a small village in Cambodia near Angkor Wat , one of country???s I had never seen or touched a computer when I lived in Cambodia ??? They ask me a lot of questions about where I grew up in Cambodia. They are inspired that I grew up in a small village in Cambodia and live in Manhattan. video blogger???

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What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?

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For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy

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Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Key to all these approaches is ensuring respondents have accessible ways to provide input that promote as much candor as possible. Photo by LIFT.

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Cambodia Culture Quest

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These inquiry-based projects are rooted in student questions and interests, and involve the focused, intensive study of one or more aspects of the literature, art, music, history, religion, language, daily life, customs, and traditions of other cultures. Creating and designing Web sites to publish student work.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities. English is increasingly favored as a second language. They also have wonderfully egalitarian set of core values: All lives have equal value.